Boondoggle: 'Transit Guy' Chuck Schumer is Foolishly Supporting the Widening of NY Route 17, Locals Say – Streetsblog New York City
Fresh from self proclaiming himself a Transit Guy, and saving the MTA, Sen. Chuck Schumer has now returned his attention to a upstate highway boondoggle that even many locals say is will only choke the Catskills in congestion and sprawl. Schumer has championed an unnecessary plan to widen New York’s Route 17 — the main artery of the Catskills, in the Hudson Valley about 70 miles northwest of New York City — for more than 15 years, and he’s looking to get it over the hump now that Democrats control Congress. The $500-million road widening would add a third lane in each direction along ...
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